Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540.

By: Robinson, Jon, MrMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2008Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780754682189Subject(s): Courts and courtiers in literature | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century | Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 16th century | Scottish literature -- To 1700 -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 1500-1540DDC classification: 820.9/358 LOC classification: PR418.P65 -- R63 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Poet, Court and Culture -- 2 Patronage and Panegyric Verse -- 3 The 'Inclusive and Exclusive' Rhetorical Strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt -- 4 Counsel, Service, Kingship and the Moral Reality of the Court -- 5 The 'Honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's Court Critique and the Unstable 'I' of his Verse -- 6 The Murky Waters of Court Politics and Poetic Propaganda -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W.
Summary: The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Poet, Court and Culture -- 2 Patronage and Panegyric Verse -- 3 The 'Inclusive and Exclusive' Rhetorical Strategy of David Lyndsay's The Dreme and The Complaynt -- 4 Counsel, Service, Kingship and the Moral Reality of the Court -- 5 The 'Honestye' of Thomas Wyatt's Court Critique and the Unstable 'I' of his Verse -- 6 The Murky Waters of Court Politics and Poetic Propaganda -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W.

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage. He places selected works under close critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship that existed between court literature and important socio-political, economic and national contexts of the period 1500 to 1540.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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